Guest Mark Dearlove Posted January 20, 2012 Report Posted January 20, 2012 Ever wished you could make land line calls on your Android handset, or play games on your home phone? No, me either, but this hasn't stopped Archos from releasing the Archos 35 smart home phone. Priced at £129.98 the Archos 35 is essentially an Android Smartphone with the mobile chip replaced by DECT compatibility. In return for handing over those £130 you get a 3.5 inch resistive (yes they still make those) screen at 272x480 resolution, 8GB on board storage plus a microSD slot, a 1GHz cpu, a front facing webcam, and Android 2.2. What you don't get is access to the Android Market, just the Archos supported Appslib. I think its a great idea but I am not sure it has been executed as well as it could have been. Resistive screens are old hat now and for £130 you can get a very decent traditional Android handset. If it were priced around the £60 mark I am sure it would get a decent uptake. We are attempting to secure a unit to review. This item was promoted to the News page - click here to view.
Guest Darkstriker Posted January 20, 2012 Report Posted January 20, 2012 Resistive Screen. What a shame. I was actually considering this when it was announced. But the screen is a real deal-killer (no doubt android market will get modded on this one so that really isn't all that critical)
Guest Mark Dearlove Posted January 20, 2012 Report Posted January 20, 2012 It will probably get modded eventually if someone takes an interest in the device. As you stated the resistive screen will take most of the modding community out of the picture. Archos also lock down there devices quite well according to Paul too so it won't necessarily be easy
Guest tdroza Posted January 20, 2012 Report Posted January 20, 2012 Do people still use land lines? :-p
Guest unrandomsam Posted January 21, 2012 Report Posted January 21, 2012 How does the connection between the phone handset and the base station work ? (If its 900mhz I will get one immediately - 5Ghz think about it- waste of time on 2.4ghz that is already saturated here). Archos offer SDE firmware's for most devices can hardly really call that locked down (Sometimes with a slight delay).
Guest John W Posted January 22, 2012 Report Posted January 22, 2012 If it's DECT then it's a protected (as in nothing else gets to use it) 1.9Ghz block of channels.
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